Emmy The Great announces new solo album in tribute to Hong Kong

Get the stories that interest you straight to your inbox every day with our personalised newsletterIt’s the set of wheels you’ll never miss.And now Ayrshire Post readers have chance to name this unique ride.Entrepreneur Forbes Robertson is the man behind the colourful import.The 25-year-old Toyota Hyiace mini bus once served on the streets of Hong Kong, taking school pupils to class.Now Forbes has acquired the motor – complete in dalmation decorations – to promote his Pet Heaven Crematorium in

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefChina reopened the doors of its cinemas on Monday, after nearly five months of closure. But audiences only trickled in.The re-opening was restricted to theaters in cities and regions where the coronavirus is deemed to have been vanquished.

Donald Trump is trying to fend off criticism of his handling of the coronavirus and the U.S. economic downturn and to shift the blame back onto Beijing, and assert that he is tougher on China than Democratic rival Joe Biden.

Whitney have announced the forthcoming release of a 10-track covers album titled ‘Candid’.The album announcement coincides with the release of a new cover of The Roches’ ‘Hammond Song’, which is the third track to be lifted from the forthcoming record.Listen to Whitney’s cover of ‘Hammond Song’ below:In a statement, Whitney drummer Julien Ehrlich said the band discovered the Roches’ track years ago.“‘Hammond Song’ became a song that was always around for us and then we showed it to the rest of

AlunaGeorge‘s Aluna Francis has today (July 16) announced details of her forthcoming debut solo album, ‘Renaissance’, due out on Friday, August 28.In addition to the album’s announcement, she’s also released a new single titled ‘Get Paid’, which features Princess Nokia and Jada Kingdom.

Hong Kong’s controversial new national security law taking force on July 1, scenes once unimaginable in the financial hub have nightmarishly come true: a 15-year-old girl arrested for waving an independence flag; books potentially offensive to China’s Communist Party removed from public libraries; protesters, fearing life imprisonment for wielding slogans, holding up blank sheets of paper — but getting detained anyway.By imposing the law, Beijing is forcibly and abruptly moving its Great

Talib Kweli has announced his new solo album ‘Cultural Currency’, which will be available to listen to as an exclusive on the independent subscription service Patreon.Marking his first solo album since 2017’s ‘Radio Silence’, the unique roll-out for ‘Cultural Currency’ will see Patreon subscribers on certain pricing tiers gain exclusive access to a new Kweli track from the album every month for 12 months.Kweli hasn’t announced a tracklist, credits or a full release date for ‘Cultural Currency’

Will Butler‘s life.For new solo album ‘Generations’ – out in September via Merge – Butler dug even deeper into generation after generation of his family, slowly coming to terms with his place as an artist, and an American, pouring the new findings into his second solo effort.The Arcade Fire multi-instrumentalist previews ‘Generations’ today (July 14) with first single ‘Surrender’, a joyous call-and-response folk-pop track.

coronavirus pandemic, Disney officials said Monday. Disney officials posted on the resort's website that the Hong Kong park was closing Wednesday until further notice.

Arcade Fire drummer Jeremy Gara has announced details of a new solo album.‘Passerine Finale’ will come out on September 11 via Invada Records, the label of Portishead‘s Geoff Barrow.In advance of the new album, Gara has shared a video for the album’s first single, ‘wraith’ – watch it below.The new album follows Gara’s debut solo album, ‘limn’, which came out back in 2016.

Rebecca Davis editorHong Kong “Mulan” star Donnie Yen this week reiterated his political loyalty to mainland China as he teased work on the upcoming theatrical adaptation of popular video game “Sleeping Dogs” and announced “Golden Empire,” a new China-backed crime thriller.His hometown is currently roiling under the impact of a controversial new national security law imposed by Beijing that strips Hong Kong of many of its former freedoms, which came into effect July 1 — the anniversary of

Rebecca Davis editorFacebook, WhatsApp, Twitter and Google said Monday they have “paused” their processing of requests for user data from Hong Kong law enforcement agencies, days after Beijing’s controversial new national security law came into force in the territory. WhatsApp is “pausing” reviews “pending further assessment of the impact of the National Security Law, including formal human-rights due diligence and consultations with human-rights experts,” a WhatsApp spokeswoman said.

PWR BTTM, has announced that they are set to release a new solo album.The New York duo broke up in 2017 after sexual abuse allegations were made against Hopkins, a week before the band were set to release their second album, ‘Pageant’.At the time, Hopkins was accused of several cases of “historic sexual assault” and was claimed to be “a known sexual predator” who was alleged to have made “unwanted advances on minors”.The band, Hopkins and drummer Liv Bruce, “strongly contested” all the

100 Gecs have announced the details of their long-teased remix album ‘1000 Gecs & The Tree Of Clues’, which is set for release on Friday, July 10.The album is set to feature remixes of tracks featuring on Laura Les and Dylan Brady’s debut album ‘1000 Gecs’, which was released in May last year.The band have already released a few collaborations from the album, such as ‘745 sticky (Injury Reserve Remix), ‘stupid horse (GFOTY and Count Baldor Remix)’, ‘money machine (A. G.

Manic Street Preachers‘ James Dean Bradfield, his latest muse had been with him for most of his life.Today (Thursday July 2), the Manics frontman announces his second solo album. Arriving on August 14, ‘Even Is Exile’ is the follow up to his 2006 debut ‘The Great Western’ and has lyrics penned by Patrick Jones – the famous Welsh poet and playwright and brother of Manics bassist and lyricist Nicky Wire.

Amid a rise in novel coronavirus cases across multiple states, CAA will keep offices in Los Angeles, New York and Nashville shuttered through the end of the year. The agency had previously set an August 1 timetable for a decision to return to its major offices, including London.

Beijing has moved quickly to impose controversial new national security legislation on Hong Kong that severely curtails the territory’s previous freedoms and could mean life in prison for violators — local and foreign alike.Hong Kong’s chief executive, Carrie Lam called the law “a crucial step to ending chaos and violence that has occurred over the past few months,” saying criticism amounted to “vicious attacks.” Within hours of the law coming into effect late Tuesday night, its presence was

Bruce Haring pmc-editorial-managerAs coronavirus cases continue to rise across the nation, CAA has decided to postpone plans for an Aug. 1 return to its offices in Los Angeles, New York and Nashville.The agency has other offices in the US and worldwide, but it is unclear if those will also be on lockdown.